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How much trust respondents have in the federal government in Washington to handle the nation's problems, asked in the CES in 2022 and 2024 with the same four-point scale.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 6% answered “A great deal” in CES: Trust in the federal government to handle problems, 2024.
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Trust in federal government to handle national problems | Trust in federal government to handle national problems How much trust do you have in the federal government in Washington when it comes to handling the nation’s problems? Caveat: Reference question; code 8 is 'None at all' | identical | A great deal → A great deal; A fair amount → A fair amount; Not very much → Not very much; None at all → None at all |
| CES: Trust in the federal government to handle problems | Trust in the federal government to handle problems How much trust do you have in the federal government in Washington when it comes to handling the nation's problems? Caveat: Same wording and scale as 2022; code 8 is 'None at all' | identical | A great deal → A great deal; A fair amount → A fair amount; Not very much → Not very much; None at all → None at all |